The Istanbul Mosaic Museum on the Web, my directory to this museum of Justinianic mosaics. Includes my gallery of photographs from the museum.

Page on the Cross of Justinian (II) at the Vatican Museum.

A much larger image is found on a Catholic site about the Vatican museums' "treasury of Saint Peter's".

Ancient coins

A Procopius coin from De Imperatoribus Romanis.

Solidus of Justinian. Text and image from Lawrence University.

Hagia Sophia

"The Emperor Justinian Builds Hagia Sophia 532-537" by Sonya Anderson, Wayne Gorski, Kimberly Tauer and Peter Morris, from Mediterranean Basin Chronology (North Park University)

There is a long section on Hagia Sophia in Nikolaos Provatas's "The Early Centuries of the Greek Roman East."

Amazon. Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure, and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church by Rowland J. Mainstone.

Medieval Sourcebook: Paul the Silentiary, "The Magnificence of Hagia Sophia." Snippet from his verse encomium.

Computer reconstruction of Haghia Sophia as it was in 1200, from Byzantium 1200, which aims to portray the city as it was in 1200. The image of

Maps

Denis Bellemare's Atlas historique de l'Antiquité tardive (Historical Atlas of Late Antiquity) has a number of highly-detailed regional maps for the period.

City Plan of Constantinopleby Christos Nussli, from De Imperatoribus Romanis.

Zoomable maps of the Roman empire at 100-year intervals (including 500 and 600) from De Imperatoribus Romanis.

Good large-scale map of Justinian's empire c. 565.

Interactive Ancient Mediterranean, Map Room. These are the best ancient maps online, by far.

Modern depictions

Painting of Theodora by Mary Beth Heatherly.

David, Belisarius / Belisarius Begging Alms (1781). Description and large image.

Mosaics of St. Vitale, Ravenna

Some of the best close-ups courtesy "A Visual Tour through Late Antiquity" by Steve Muhlberger.

The Mosaics of St. Vitale, Ravenna by Emily Pegues. Two large uncropped images, with explanatory text.

Architectural description of St. Vitale and a page on the mosaics, but I can't figure out who made these pages.

German page on the Ravenna mosaic, with biographical/chronological sketches.

Byzantine mosaics page, with closeup of Theodora. Courtesy Ms. Hart, a 7th grade humanities teacher in Lincoln, CA.

Sculpture

Column of Justinian (reconstruction) from the interesting site Byzantium 1200, which aims to portray the city as it was in 1200. The image of Haghia Sophia is nice.

Other

Image and details about Justinian's walls at the St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai.

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